Here's a very informative stock and forex trading video about mistakes that can wreck your trading and terminate your account:

Which is Better to Trade Forex or Stock Market? Trading Business …

A thorough comparison between trading Stocks and trading Forex with all the technicalities you need to know about trading both markets.

Publish Date: 11/23/2010 9:28

http://www.goldenwire.com/363/the-benefits-of-trading-forex-over-trading-stocks/

Advantages of Trading Forex over Stocks

www.TracknTrade.com Compare Stocks to FX, or Forex. Learn to trade the foreign currency markets, using technical analysis with trading and charting software.

Do not buy a stock unless you have studied about it. Never purchase a stock on credit and do not trade futures that you cannot cover possible loss on the contract.

Understanding Stock Market Trade | Internet Marketing Affiliate …

One way people have engaged into is making their money circulate the stock market trading. In this market, shareholders can sell, hold and increase their shares by means of buying more stocks.

Publish Date: 10/22/2010 16:44

http://internetmarketing.eugenelam.com/2010/10/understanding-stock-market-trade/

Why Choose Online Foreign Exchange Trading Over Stock Trading …

For some unknown reason, the currency market adapts well to automation much more easily than the stock market. Forex androids are made out of all kinds of trading systems and a lot of them are successful. This isn't the case with stock …

Publish Date: 09/21/2010 13:21

http://www.flaying.net/why-choose-online-foreign-exchange-trading-over-stock-trading/

The Stock Market vs. The Forex Market « BVIFX – Forex Trading

The differences between the stock market and the forex market are significant. In this chapter, I will discuss the general definitions of the two as well as the pros and cons of each. …

Publish Date: 09/21/2010 16:24

http://bvifx.com/the-stock-market-vs-the-forex-market.html

ARCHANA'S BLOG – REFLECTIONS OF MARKET TRENDS

ARCHANA'S BLOG – REFLECTIONS OF MARKET TRENDS. Platform for detailed analysis of equities in stock markets for all kinds of traders. Guide to shape of things to come in stock markets. …

Publish Date: 09/16/2010 3:40

http://archana-archdeb.blogspot.com/2010/09/stock-futures-trading-made-un-ezy-j-p.html

Ruminating on Recent Market Trends and Gold's All-Time High

… budged from their inflationista tendencies (and, if anything, look set to soon redouble their efforts); and the stock market bounce, posing as it did for a short while as “genuine recovery,” appears to be coming apart at the seams. … Market trends, for one thing, do not change overnight. It takes time for them to unfold and broken egos to nourish their metamorphosis. Fortunately for Mr. Market, he has nothing if not the length of days and the arrogance of man on …

Publish Date: 09/16/2010 4:13

http://dailyreckoning.com/ruminating-on-recent-market-trends-and-golds-all-time-high/

Using The Forex Currency Trading System | ArticleField.com – Free …

You should pay more attention to many different factors when you are considering to use the Forex currency trading system. Fortunately, today there are many different simulation games that can be played that use the real quotes in them, …

Publish Date: 09/14/2010 11:12

http://www.articlefield.com/57977/using-the-forex-currency-trading-system/

Enemies Of The Profitable Trading System | Everything You Need To …

Enemies of the profitable trading system can be a powerful sentiment, that when the same trading plan that tells us to go into a position initially, back & told us to leave immediately, our feelings might well target on the possibility …

Publish Date: 09/14/2010 16:53

http://www.freearticlezines.com/2010/09/enemies-of-the-profitable-trading-system/

Some Concerns When Optimizing Trading System Portfolios | Don't …

We have talked about the risks of optimizing trading systems (forcing trading systems to conform to historical data), but, one of the subtler types of optimization occurs with portfolio selection. This occurs when trading systems are …

Publish Date: 09/13/2010 16:42

http://www.dontclickit.net/some-concerns-when-optimizing-trading-system-portfolios.html

Understanding Stock Trading Technical Analysis Tutorial w/ the Zecco Zirens

Zecco, which provides Free Online Stock Trades through Zecco Trading, has created a series of video tutorials to help improve your understanding of stock trading. This video covers technical stock analysis, including technical indicators, investing e…

Stock Trading: Where To Place Your Stop Losses | DailyMarkets.com

I have been meaning to write a post on setting stop loss points for quite a while now but as you readers know, never got down to it. Well, its raining outside.

Publish Date: 09/13/2010 5:01

http://www.dailymarkets.com/stock/2010/09/12/stock-trading-where-to-place-your-stop-losses/

Short-Term Stock Trading Strategies | Forex Hedging Strategy …

Short term stock trading, also known as day trading, is the practice of buying and selling financial instruments within the same trading day on the stock.

Publish Date: 09/13/2010 0:21

http://www.forexhedgingstrategy.net/short-term-stock-trading-strategies.html

Stock Market Trading Strategy

trade-technicals.blogspot.com EBook is available on the blog in donation trade. Book explains options for use of hedging (Including 401k hedging), alternate strategy for trading, and some strategy

Spread Betting Together With Stock Market Trading Suggestions …

At the moment in 2010 it seems that financial spread betting is generally much more available for the beginner potential traders than that of share trading or even CFD trading. In case you are truly a beginner it is advisable to open up …

Publish Date: 09/09/2010 3:41

http://blog.webmagazinetoday.com/spread-betting-together-with-stock-market-trading-suggestions

Day Trading Strategy > Best Stock Market Strategies – Online Trade …

BY.- http://www.ProfitableStockMarket.com A beginner usually feels very attracted to the stock market while for example discovering a.

Publish Date: 09/09/2010 18:01

http://www.stockstrategytrading.net/day-trading-strategy-best-stock-market-strategies-online-trade-strategy-using-a-trading-strategy-or-a-stock-market-system/

The other night, I had finished up my shopping at the local supermarket and was heading homeward in my car. The main lights in the car park were off, which definitely distracted me somewhat as I had to fumble around to get into the car, and then really strain to see the keyhole to turn the ignition.

So, now I was on the main road just outside the supermarket, heading back, when suddenly a silver car pulled out from a side road and almost slammed into me side on. He braked suddenly and pulled back into the side street. He also had the wretched nerve to honk his horn at me!

So I’m thinking stuff like, “You idiot! Why don’t you look the heck where you’re going? And then YOU honk at ME?!”

But I’m also thinking, how could this happen? It’s as if he didn’t even see me. Is he totally blind or am I invisible?

Then I noticed something very interesting. My gaze flicked to my dashboard. My headlights were completely off! Yes, I could see the road ahead just fine because there were streetlights. But I guess that nobody could see me coming so very well!

It was night and I was driving like a bullet in the dark, unseen.

Hmmm. So who’s the idiot now, I wonder?!…

I have to admit I felt more than a trifle guilty about it. There could have been a really bad accident if I had carried on much longer. Luckily, I had only just left the supermarket, and even more luckily, my attention had been immediately alerted to the problem by this incident.

So, what's this story got to do with online trading, you might ask? Well, nothing and everything!

The fact is, it's a very good life lesson. Many traders trade like this – absolutely certain that what they are doing is right, and MUST be right because it's them doing it. And that's totally irrespective of what the markets are plainly telling them!

We get negative feedback from the market, e.g. it moves against our position. So what happens? Instead of having a stop that gets hit and takes us out for minimal loss, we have no stop at all. Or worse still, we actually ADD to the position. That's kind of like saying to the market, "You IDIOT!"

It's just like when the guy nearly hit me and had “the cheek” to honk at ME. We carry on all the same, just swearing that we are RIGHT! Then one day, we crash and burn and scratch our heads and wonder why?

Is it any wonder that 95% of online traders crash and burn when it's like they're driving without their headlights on! They're just asking to crash.

It's a great analogy that I want you to think about for your life and especially for your Trading. What is your blind spot? What is it that you are just refusing to see in your method?

We can drive along in our lives, not examining what we are doing, not being as AWARE as we should be. Then one day, reality collides with our fantasy and we are left to pick up the pieces, and wonder what the heck happened. This happens ALL the time in Trading.

Rather than think “Idiot” about the other guy, I was left asking, “SO who’s the idiot now?” And that's what we need to ask ourselves (in a constructive fashion of course, i.e. "What can I learn from this?") when we get our noses bloodied in the markets.

In fact, the guy who nearly hit me was symbolic of all those people who warn us we are in danger when we take a wrong path, but who we filter out and ignore because we don’t want to hear what they have to say. Luckily for me, he appeared on the scene and awakened me to something I would not have seen otherwise until perhaps it was too late.

Maybe the lesson is, switch on your headlights BEFORE you have the crash! In Trading this means, examine what you are doing in full awareness and make sure that it is what you really want to be doing. Do you have a method and is it PROVEN to work?

Realize that what you do has financial consequences for your trading account. Every lapse, even momentary as mine was, can have enormous results.

So, make sure that when it comes to your Trading, you too are not a dark bullet in the night, heading for a certain crash and burn. Switch the lights on, and shine the bright light of Awareness onto your Trading and your life in general.

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Get the FREE Report, The 7 Deadly Mistakes Of Online Trading. Which of these critical errors do YOU make… and you don't even know it?…

I took off a losing Dow Jones stock index trade yesterday.

That’s not a big deal. After all, you win some, you lose some.

Maybe I should say, I FINALLY took off a losing trade. It’s one of those things. You learn something. You know it. You even teach it to others. And sometimes, you let your discipline slacken and don’t do it yourself!

We’re all prone to this which is why we must maintain our discipline when doing online trading. The financial markets are not forgiving.

So what did I do? Well, the market opened yesterday morning a little outside of my stop-loss level but it was just drifting (this was an options trade so it’s not so easy to enter the stop at the time of the trade). I told myself that I would let it drift a little more in my favour and then take the trade off.

But you know what? A stop is a stop. If you’re wrong, you’re wrong. And what you invariably find if you play this sort of game is that you lose more than you ever win.

So it was yesterday. When I finally took the trade off, the loss was substantially larger than it needed to be.

Now, it’s no big disaster because it was a really small trade size. However, it is the principle that counts. I don’t think we should ever tell ourselves that we can “afford” a trade, i.e. the present loss level. If you do, you find that all too often, it will get to a point when it really DOES hurt!

Besides, if you play this game, when ARE you ever wrong on a trade? After all, if the market were to then improve in my favour, and maybe even go all the way back to breakeven, isn’t that less reason to take the trade off?

No, the answer is always to know your stop, i.e. when you are definitely wrong, and exit once it is hit or passed.

I shall make sure that I never make this mistake again. How about you?…

Asoka Selvarajah